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- Do Flight Attendants Know If You Redeemed Miles For Your Ticket? – One Mile at a Time
- Why Frontier Airlines’ Zone 1 Boarding Is a Mess This Summer – Upgraded Points
- Boomers are still doing these 7 things at the airport that make Gen Z scream into their neck pillows – VegOut
- Paid $59 For United’s “Window Seat” In 11A — Got A Wall Instead. Now It’s A California Class Action For Fraud – View from the Wing
- Is United Airlines Bringing Back McDonald’s Onboard? – Live and Let’s Fly
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The Gen Z article is really dumb.
1. I don’t ever see Boomers dress up for air travel these days apart from the really odd 95 year old that dresses in a suit everyday. I did see a Medal of Honor winner from WW2 that was dressed up on an Honor Flight though. But again he must have been at least 90.
2. Not all Gen Z folks resist printed boarding passes 100% of the time and those they do have never gotten to a gate where their phone doesn’t work, bonus points if they are in a foreign country.
3. This one exaggerates like most of this fluff piece. Experienced air travelers do these things, not because of their age.
4. Gate lice knows no age and I see plenty of Gen Z folks camped out at gates, asleep in that ugly hoodie and PJ bottoms, nursing a sore foot they got because they tripped on an escalator step in their flip flops or prison slides (see number 1) while holding up the line behind them trying to get to their flight.
5. Checking bags isn’t free most of the time unless you have the airline credit card which many Gen Z’ers can’t even qualify for and if they did they wouldn’t be sitting at a gate, 2 hours early, writing up an article for Vegout as they judge other people sitting there with them as they nurse their sore toes.
6. Gen Z folks sit in their seat, still asleep after that long 57 minute flight, trying to hide their introvert personality they have developed from spending too much time online in their tiny-house in their parents backyard. They have no concept of being polite or ready to go (deplane in this case) when it is their turn so the people behind them wait for them to get their backpack from under their seat as they stumble off the plane holding up the line as they check their TikTok feed and wondering how they got to LA for the Comic-Con. Still pissed that mom wouldn’t pay for them to fly first class so they could try it for the first time.
7. This one wrote itself, not including IROP issues at the airport or passport control.
“Gen Z glides through with digital everything, occasionally too confident in technology that fails at crucial moments. When systems crash or phones die, they’re left helplessly analog, suddenly understanding the appeal of printed backups.”
They also fail to understand that the Kiosk wouldn’t be needed if they used the airline app but since they are living in the past and are inexperienced they still check bags so they can cry online about how the airline lost their bags and they are on the beach in LA with the only outfit they have with them for the week (See number 1) and their Cosplay costume is missing in action.
This article or blog post does even things out in the judgement during the summary but it’s not really founded on reality and could be written about any type of person at an airport, the gangbanger wanna be, the muscle guy in his Ed Hardy shirt from yesteryear, the rude businesswoman who thinks she is better than everyone else and that is why she carries that giant purse, the hipster business guy with the wrinkled sports coat on a 90 degree day that is a size too small but looks good with his trendy brown and white dress shoes, the lady that hauls on a ton of stuff but holds up the line because she isn’t strong enough to hoist all her crap into the overhead, the random people wearing huge headphones through the airport for some weird reason…Airports are great for people watching, that is for sure, but people’s habits aren’t always due to age. It can be experiences or inexperience, Common Sense isn’t “Common” as they say.
Hey Gen Z-ers, I’m a “boomer” who IS e-savvy, but also has back-up plans if the “e-gadgets” don’t work. It’s called “contingency planning.” I don’t want to sleep in an airport! So get a life! SOME of your group do things that annoy LOTS of people, like:
1) blocking the walkways of airports or bumping into people with your face buried in your phone
2) texting while driving
3) using you phone while self-scanning your purchases at a grocery store, making all the other shoppers wait in line until you finish your unimportant to us phone conversation.
We politely dismiss your idiosyncrasies, so be a little more tolerant of others’ “annoying habits.”